[quote=“Manuel Zelaya”]They did only bowl 54 balls at Hughes? It was hardly the exertions of that, that saw England’s ‘bowlers tire themselves out’. Hughes prospered early from some slack bowling from Broad. Once Flintoff got to work on him Hughes was out of his depth.
On the basis of the warm up match and his first innings performance yesterday Hughes has been a big letdown so far and has not lived up to all the hype about him.[/QUOTE]
Well said. 9 overs bowled at Hughes shared between 3 or 4 bowlers hardly tired the whole attack out. Giving Broad the new ball was the really bad error but Flintoff made Hughes look like a leper.
England badly needed that but they could have done with it a hundred runs ago, or certainly earlier this morning. Australia won’t be too worried I don’t think they’ve plenty of batting left. Important they don’t allow England’s confidence up, consolidate until lunch.
Fancy Clarke to do well here. Think he’s a smashing player. I remember in 2005 Bandage was constantly talking up Ian Bell as being better than both Clarke and Aiden McGeady. Deary me.
Sloppy from Hussey. Fantastic knock from Ponting though to get 150.
Shocking lbw decision there against Bopara. How refreshing to see one of the longest standing traditions in test cricket continuing to propser - the Convicts benefiting from poor umpiring decisions. Parcticularly in view of the fact that England couldn’t buy a shout in the field in 3 days.
Didn’t see Pietersen but by all accounts it was a shocker. Just left a straight ball from Hilfenhaus that took his off stump clean away.
Who could come into the England batting lineup if they wanted changes. They’ve had some very poor batting displays and Cook, KP and Strauss have all lost their wickets very cheaply this innings. So they’ve Onions and Harmison ready to bowl presumably - who are their batting alternatives?